HMSAS Africana[Note 2] was a minesweeping trawler of the South African Seaward Defence Force during the Second World War.

[2] She was originally a sea fisheries research vessel and was later fitted for mine-sweeping and survey duties in the early 1930s.

[3] She was retained for survey duties off the South African coast throughout the war and in October 1942 she was involved in the rescue of survivors from the American cargo vessel Anne Hutchinson after she was torpedoed by U-504 off East London.

[6] After the war, Africana was returned to the South African Department of Sea Fisheries and was re-fitted as a fishery survey vessel, starting her first post-war survey in May 1947.

She remained in service in this role until 1950 when she was replaced by the new survey vessel Africana II.